The collection of antique and other engraved stones, of jewels of the period ofthe Renaissance, and objects of like class but more recent workmanship,belonging to Her Majesty the Queen, is comparatively little known, althoughcontaining several objects of high importance.

The traveller who sails from the Piraeus for the Hellespont sees, after havingpassed the western shore of Lesbos, the Cape Lectum, which forms the westernextremity of the Ida range of mountains. This cape is the southern extremity ofthe land, which from Homeric times until now, and probably for many centuriesbefore Homer, has borne the famous, the immortal, name of Troas. In sailingthence along its western shore, which extends almost in a straight line to thenorth, and ends in Cape Sigeum, the traveller distinguishes there, in the midstof a dense forest of oak-trees, the gigantic ruins of the once flourishing cityof Alexandria-Troas, which, by its immense extent, seems to have had at least500,000 inhabitants.

The rarity of Celtic tumuli in the eastern part of Kent contrasts strongly withthe comparative abundance of Anglo-Saxon sepulchral remains which have beendiscovered in that part of the county. One of the former, explored by Douglas,and a large and interesting barrow in Iffins Wood, near Canterbury, opened aboutthirty years ago by Mr. Bell, are, as far as I know, the only recorded instancesof Celtic tumuli in East Kent.

The parishes of St. Margaret-Lothbury, St. Christopher-le-Stocks, and St.Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange, form an irregular quadrilateral figure, of whichthe northern side is bounded by a line a few yards north of Lothbury andThrogmorton Street; the two other principal sides are roughly formed by Prince'sStreet, Threadneedle Street, and a line west of Old Broad Street.

Some years have elapsed since the Earl of Verulam obliged the Society ofAntiquaries by the exhibition of a remarkable portrait of Edward Grimston, aneminent English diplomate of the fifteenth century. Achromo-lithograph of this picture was subsequently published in theArchæologia, accompanied by a valuable biographical sketch of the personrepresented, from the pen of the Director, Mr. Augustus W. Franks, who there setdown all the particulars of Grimston's life and connections which he had beenable to collect.

Recent excavations in Cyprus have brought to light a vast number of tombs of theprimitive inhabitants of the Island, and a careful examination of the contentsof these will help us to understand something of the manners, ideas, andartistic character of the different peoples whose remains are theredeposited.

The earliest copy of the Statutes of the Cathedral Church of Chichester occurs inthe Dean's Book, a MS. marked 148, now in the library of University College,Oxford, which formerly belonged to Gerard Langbaine, Provost of Queen's College,and was given in 1692 by Maria Langbaine, widow of his son Gerald Langbaine,gentleman commoner of the former college. A note on one of the leaves shows thata former owner was John Crowcher, Dean of Chichester from 1425 to 1460.“[Liber Decanatus] Cicestren' qui nuper erat de novo ligatus per mag.Johm Cruch' decanum predicte ecclesie qui eciam de bonis suispropriis restituit implementum decanatus predicti, quod erat alienatum etabductum per M. Ric. Talbot penultimum predecessorum dicti Johannis decani.Dictus etiam Johannes plurima bona expendit circa reparaciones dicti decanatuset manerii sui de Coudr. et aliarum domorum-pertinentium ad dictum decanatum queomnia erant quasi in ruina. Ideo parcat sibi successor et oret pro animaejus.”